WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Horrified by the prospect of being forced into marriage with a 41-year-old man, a 13-year-old ...

The law, when it was passed 65 years ago, established 18 as the legal age of marriage – though children can be married as young as 15 with permission from a judge or guardian.

Percentage of women in the country aged 20 to 24 years, who were married before 18 years of age, was 48 among the Hindus in 2005-06, which was one per cent higher than Muslims.

The initial proposal to reform the law used the slogan “They’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry.

Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged young girls to marry at age of 16 in his latest rejection of the country's once effective family planning program, local newspapers reported on ...

Iraq is poised to pass a new law that would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to nine, allowing men to marry young girls, according to a new report.

Girls are disproportionately affected, as child marriage is intertwined with customs and traditions that teach traditional marriage rules.

The longer someone stays in school, the more likely they are to delay getting married—but education does not reduce the ...

A conservative coalition in Iraq has pushed proposals to lower the legal age of marriage for girls to just nine-years-old, sparking fierce backlash from activists and rights groups. Protesters ...

The initial proposal to reform the law used the slogan “They’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry.

Justice Jasmeet Singh observed, 'A girl on attaining puberty could marry without the consent of her parents under the Muslim laws and has the right to reside with her husband even when she is ...

While the bill doesn't explicitly legalise child marriage, it would mandate Muslim couples to select either the Sunni or Shia sect at the time of the registration of their marriage.